Our new Introduction to Journalism teacher did what our near-matriarchal department head couldn't do. He got us to read the papers. I have never before, in any subject, seen such an active participation from the class when it came to current affairs.
I'm not quite sure what compelling power of persuasion he holds over the class. Good speaking skills, I'll hand that to him. Also the fact that he's probably the only young, strapping lad a lot of girls in a Christian convent have seen in a long, long time. I sit amused during his classes, watching their reactions, and his own. For the most part (or maybe all the time), he seems blissfully unaware that he's in a class full of some of the hottest chicks on campus (a list I find myself excluded from. Woefully.).
It's a good thing. Decent men who don't ogle? May their tribe increase. Decent men who get hot chicks interested in *gasp* papers?? May God grant you immortality.
The gentleman in question, sadly, is not devoid of his own personal grievances. And that includes a defamation suit filed against him (yes, that won him universal sympathy from the class). Still, he takes it in his stride, teaches us - a bunch of crazy girls with unbelievable patience, before rushing off to what I can only assume is a thankless field job at the paper he works on. Hopefully, we'll get to know him better as the semester progresses.
Nice guy. New guy. I think we'll get on just fine with him. Some, I suspect, much better than the others. ;D
